Teruo Koike

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Deathday

2022-03-16

Place of Birth

Aichi, Japan

Teruo Koike

Biography

Born in Aichi in 1951. Becomes involved in independent filmmaking as a student of Kobe University. Discovers Stan Brakhage in 1974 and steps into the world of individual experimental images. Engages in constructing a petrochemical complex in Iran in 1978. Returns to Japan a year later due to the Khomeinī revolution. Joins the kick off of Voyant Cinémathèque in 1983. Leads the image exhibition based on individual and new work shows, "The Image Cosmology", since 1996 and continues till today. Also, he continues to produce "The Ecosystem Series", his lifework.

Production

1975

Study

as Director

1979

Fomalhaut

as Director

1981

Ecosystem 1

as Director

1974

Sea Lily

as Director

1979

Eusthenopteron

as Director

1976

Alvileo

as Director

1983

Ecosystem 2

as Director

1982

1984

Aldebaran

as Director

2010

1986

Winter Horizon

as Director

1983

INSECT

as Director

2013

2004

2009

1999

Inner New Moon

as Director

1999

2005

Radiant Point

as Director

2020

Ecosystem 30

as Director

1985

Ecosystem 3

as Director

1987

Ecosystem 4

as Director

2012

2016

2016

Ecosystem 22

as Director

2017

2016

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